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Publicity posters liken her to Shirley Temple. Her perky performance in Paper Moon is being compared with the classic childhood performances of Jackie Coogan and Jackie Cooper. Still, such megapraise does not entirely please nine-year-old Tatum O'Neal. "It's not the funnest thing in the world being called a boy," she laments in her husky voice. It was not all that much fun making a movie either. "I thought you could make a movie in one day with maybe four hours of work, because you can see it in two hours," she reasoned. Instead...
Patrick and his team members -mostly concerned parents, already deprogrammed kids and an occasional clergyman-are not known to have any professional credentials in psychology. Nevertheless, they claim their treatment always works. They liken it to an encounter group session. Other accounts of deprogramming indicate that the process, which can last from two days to two weeks, is something between a brainwashing and an inquisition. According to Pat ("Biff") Alexander, 23, a former member of the Jesus movement who recanted and is now a member of Patrick's team, the first step is an in tensive interrogation, sometimes lasting...
...democracy -than the supremacy of civilian authority over the military. Limited wars such as Korea and Viet Nam put unusual strain on the bonds of the tradition. In Korea, it cost General Douglas MacArthur his command; in Viet Nam, it led General William Westmoreland to liken his job to fighting with one hand tied behind his back. But until General John Lavelle, Viet Nam had produced no outright defiance of presidential strictures on the conduct...
...Skinner, who is both a psychology professor and an institution at Harvard. Skinner is the most influential of living American psychologists, and the most controversial contemporary figure in the science of human behavior, adored as a messiah and abhorred as a menace. As leader of the "behavioristic" psychologists, who liken man to a machine, Skinner is vigorously opposed both by humanists and by Freudian psychoanalysts. Next week that opposition is bound to flare anew with the publication of Skinner's latest book. Beyond Freedom and Dignity (Knopf; $6.95). Its message is one that is familiar to followers of Skinner...
...Ralph Nader would liken a pickup truck carrying a camper box around a tight turn to a circus elephant with one leg raised? Or another pickup in an S-turn to a round-bottomed dinghy during a squall? Who at the same time would warn that baby shampoos, their ads notwithstanding, will probably sting the eyes of some infants? Or declare that the most persistent cheating at supermarket meat counters is plain, old-fashioned short-weighting...